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title: Very rarely, a child gets an illness doctors cannot cure; a children… — Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill · tree and pragmatics
description: Very rarely, a child gets an illness doctors cannot cure; a children's hospice is a calm place with toys and a garden where very ill children and their families are cared for, kept comfortable and helped to enjoy the time they have. Who acts: child, doctors, hospice. A sentence of the lesson «Illnes
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# Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill, sentence 3

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Very rarely, a child gets an illness doctors cannot cure; a children's hospice is a calm place with toys and a garden where very ill children and their families are cared for, kept comfortable and helped to enjoy the time they have.

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**Who acts:** child, doctors, hospice · **What happens:** get, not cure, be, care, keep, help · **To what, where:** illness, calm place, ill children, time

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Illness, hospitals and children who are very ill» of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, doctors, hospice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:religion-ethics:059-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill.lesson:3
# text = Very rarely, a child gets an illness doctors cannot cure; a children's hospice is a calm place with toys and a garden where very ill children and their families are cared for, kept comfortable and helped to enjoy the time they have.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = religion-ethics
# lesson = 059-illness-hospitals-and-children-who-are-very-ill.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
8	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	hospice	hospice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	cared	care	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	obl	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	_
39	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=38:cc
41	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | a child | a illness |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer illness=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **cure** | can | doctors | a illness *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer illness=Source |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a children's hospice | a calm place and a garden |  |  |  | with toys | tree rules |
| 4 | **care** | present · passive |  | ill children and doctors's families |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **keep** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **help** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **enjoy** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **have** | present | doctors *= doctor* | the time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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